AWK/SED. How to remove parentheses in simple text file

Question

I have a text file looking like this:

(-9.1744438E-02,7.6282293E-02) (-9.1744438E-02,7.6282293E-02)  ... and so on.

I would like to modify th

Answer 1

Guess we all know this, but just to emphasize:

Usage of bash commands is better in terms of time taken for execution, than using awk or sed to do the same job. For instance, try not to use sed/awk where grep can suffice.

In this particular case, I created a file 100000 lines long file, each containing characters "(" as well as ")". Then ran

$  /usr/bin/time -f%E -o log cat file | tr -d "()"

and again,

$  /usr/bin/time -f%E -ao log sed 's/[()]//g' file

And the results were:

05.44 sec : Using tr

05.57 sec : Using sed